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"Well, aren’t you a punctual one?" The voice at the other end of the phone line belonged to British actress Miriam Margolyes, who for the occasion has reached into her bottomless bag of accents and delivered her greeting in the upbeat, sunny inflections of a longtime Southern Californian. "I'm perfectly fine doing the whole interview like this, in fact. But I'm really doing it to freak you out." The choice of accent was not haphazard. Margolyes is playing the role of the late Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers in an Australian production of "I'll Eat You Last." It's the same part that Bette Midler originated on Broadway and later...

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